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Dom Pates

@dompates.bsky.social

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Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · May 20

If #NetZero is the simple but complex slogan to define the story of where we want to get to with #ClimateChange - where the carbon cycle is brought back into balance - what’s the equivalent story slogan for sustainability? #CircularEconomy? #NaturePositive? Or is it too complex to reduce like that?

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14h

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 11h

Probably more interested in the squirrel, I think.

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 11h

Looks fabulous. Only ever seen it from across the water.

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 15h

No doubt (it’s just that it was her that I heard it from).

I’m still processing it, tbh, but I think I take it as your small local pro-nature actions (which are far easier to do than ‘save the world’) have outsized impacts, beyond just their locality. Something like that.

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 15h

Something I heard Jane Goodall say that resonated with me was to flip ‘Think Global, Act Local’ on its head to read ‘Think Local, Act Global’. I think this resonates in what you’re suggesting.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 15h

What a great set of videos around digital sustainability - really useful.

Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social · 22h

These three videos on Digital Sustainability, each under 5 minutes long, were created out of the Green Digital Design and Green Web Estate internships with the Website and Communications digital and design service.
#OER #Sustainability #TechnicalDebt #TechSky

open.ed.ac.uk/digital-sust...

Digital Sustainability

These three videos on Digital Sustainability, each under 5 minutes long, were created out of the Green Digital Design internships with the Website and Communications digital and design service. Ove...

open.ed.ac.uk

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a thing that’s pretty staggering from this deck:

‘The sun supplies more energy to Earth every 5 days than all fossil fuel reserves’

I mean…wow!

herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 2d

Hi everyone, and for more optimism (about some things), here's the 112 pp ember slide deck on the renewable revolution @70sbachchan.bsky.social
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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 2d

Ahead of the game, as ever, Snigdha!

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 5d

Old enough to remember a Murdoch purchase being the death of MySpace…

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to hear it - so it should. Same with solar roof tiles. Why on Earth shouldn’t our houses capture all the energy that they need to run rather than pipe it in from halfway around the world?

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 5d

Havel spins in his grave, etc, etc

Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 5d

This time, we’re not going to let the outside world hand us over to a mass murdering, imperialist dictator. This time, we’re going to hand ourselves over to a mass murdering, imperialist dictator! DIY appeasement.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election

With Babiš’s victory the Czech Republic looks set to join Hungary and Slovakia in refusing support for Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 5d

Even looking into the potential of concrete for energy storage is a fascinating idea. I always think that regular glass windows must be possible to be doubled up as solar panels somehow (provided, of course, they remain transparent).

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 5d

Great to hear. And thanks - my own little one’s a wonder in her own way. Amidst all the sh*t in the world, if our kids don’t give us hope, what will?!

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely phenomenal - go her!

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 5d

Came across a fascinating reframing of a common phrase in the Jane Goodall memorials on the podcast feeds last night.

Instead of the more common ‘Think global, act local’, she flipped it to be ‘Think local, act global’.

What would that mean to you?

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

Hopefully, exactly at the point that I’m toying with having a PhD in the bag (if I dare be so bold as to assume I’d be able to get it over the line at all)…

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 6d

The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

The politics of drawing a moral line

The politics of drawing a moral line.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

Those damned ‘shoe-wearing elites’ - they’re everywhere!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 7d

An hour of music radio all about #RenewableEnergies, you say? Of course you want to tune in!

D1 Radio Hour tonight, live on ttns.uk at 23:00 (UK time) with a set entirely dedicated to solar, wind, waves (oh yes, and batteries).

Join us in the chatroom if you can.

#transitionism

Poster for a D1 Radio Hour set on The Thursday Night show, titled ‘Musical Renewables’ (live on air Oct 2nd 23:00 UK time). Shows a wind turbine by the sea with a sunset sky.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 7d

And then the formation of Apple Corps. Or even Rolling Stones Records…

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 7d

"Tomelilla is the first local government to attempt to deliver infrastructure and education using doughnut economics" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town

A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla

www.theguardian.com

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 7d

My goodness. Seems *some* in the US media see what’s really on the end of the fork.

Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 7d

youtube.com/watch?v=gPpU... wow hard hitting

Lawrence: Trump was 'on the verge of outright insanity' in deranged speech to military commanders

YouTube video by MSNBC

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